Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party : inside an authoritarian regime / / Joseph Sassoon

• Autore: Sassoon Joseph
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 324.2567/083
• Soggetto topico: Political parties - Iraq
• Soggetto geografico: Iraq Politics and government 1979-1991; Iraq Politics and government 1991-2003
• Classificazione: POL040020
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: 1. The rise of the Ba'th party; 2. Party structure and organization; 3. The Ba'th party branches; 4. Security organizations during the Ba'th era; 5. The Ba'th and the army; 6. The personality cult of Saddam Hussein; 7. Control and resistance; 8. Bureaucracy and civil life under the Ba'th.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a massive archive of government documents captured by the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein. It is these documents that form the basis of this extraordinarily revealing book and that have been translated and analyzed by Joseph Sassoon, an Iraqi-born scholar and seasoned commentator on the Middle East. They uncover the secrets of the innermost workings of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council, how the party was structured, how it operated via its network of informers and how the system of rewards functioned.
• Titolo autorizzato: Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party
• ISBN: 1-139-20905-1; 1-107-22321-0; 1-280-56855-0; 1-139-22176-0; 9786613598158; 1-139-04294-7; 1-139-22347-X; 1-139-21694-5; 1-139-21387-3; 1-139-22003-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810219703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II